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Excerpt from The Roman History, From the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire: Abridged for the Use of Schools I hope, therefore, for the reader's indulgence, if in the following attempt it {hall appear, that my only aim was to fupplv a concife, plain, and unaffect ed narrative of the rife and decline of a well known empire; I was contented to make fuch a book, as could notfail of being fervnceable, though, 'of all others, the mol't unlikely to promote the repu tation of the writer. Inltead, therefore, of preing forward among the ambiti ous, I only claim the merit of, knowing my own lt'rength, and falling back a mong the hindmofi ranks, and with con -fcious inferiority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.